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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 18 March 2020
Featuring exact note-for-note transcriptions of his recorded solos for piano, the Bill Evans Omnibook contains a variety of helpful features throughout the book, including chord symbols, easy-to-read notation, rehearsal letters, metronome marks, and more.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 11 March 2020
HingeStix are a learning tool that lets drummers learn proper technique while preventing bad habits from the very start. These practice drumsticks, by Sam Ruttenberg, are great for drummers to simulate and reinforce a loose grip, allowing the stick to pivot freely around the fulcrum, while engaging the hands and the back fingers to control and master bounce and rebound.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 04 March 2020
In Practical Music Education Technology, veteran music educators Rick Dammers and Marjorie LoPresti help music teachers introduce technology into the classroom by providing accessible strategies to support and enrich students' musical learning.
Read more: ‘Practical Music Education Technology’ from Oxford University Press
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 02 March 2020
D’Addario Woodwinds’ padded leather saxophone straps feature soft yet strong materials for an uncompromising mix of style and functionality.
Read more: D’Addario Woodwinds’ Padded Leather Saxophone Straps
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 21 February 2020
TAMA's smallest ever complete kit is the CLUB-JAM Flyer.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 21 February 2020
The ReedGeek Universal “Special ZR” is the latest addition to ReedGeek’s line of reed adjustment and maintenance tools.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 18 February 2020
Hal Leonard's new Singer's Jazz Anthology series features vocal lines with piano accompaniments.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 12 February 2020
Adaptable Trios, the newest series from Excelcia Music Publishing, contains 25 newly-composed or arranged trios that can be flexibly used with any combination of wind and percussion instruments (in the Wind/Percussion series) or with any combination of string instruments (in the Strings series).
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 03 February 2020
The Concerto DA-300 is an all-new wireless digital & acoustic accordion. High quality sampled sounds can be selected and saved either from the grill of the accordion or with the included Android tablet.
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- Written by Victoria Wasylak
- Category: Instruments & Gear
- Published: 16 January 2020
The new Sonny Terry Heritage Edition Harmonica posthumously commemorates one of the most influential artists in the blues harmonica scene.
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